Re: how to sort folders with name format "dd-mm-yy vacation x" in chronological order??
- From: Big_Al <BigAl@xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:24:59 -0500
Alex wrote:
Hi all,Unfortunately other than sorting by creation date which just don't work either, the date in the name is part of a string and not really a date so you can sort. Its a problem with your brain (the human brain) in that you see it and do the translation but the PC can't.
I have spent the last one hour trying to figure out how windows sorts
files and folders alphabetically and I give up! (win xp home sp3 in
windows explorer window)
What I want to do is the following:
For each holiday I have a folder containing pictures. The folders are
all named in the same format, namely "dd-mm-yy country" WITHOUT the
quotes.
I want windows to sort these folders chronologically and do this
automatically.
Example:
01-01-07 Spain
30-07-07 Greece
01-12-07 France
10-10-08 Egypt
Which is sorted chronologically
When in explorer I select the option to sort files by name, I get
this:
30-07-07 Greece
10-10-08 Egypt
01-12-07 France
01-01-07 Spain
Which is not chronological.
When I let windows sort by "last edited on..." this is not correct
either since I may have edited old files at a later date which will
get a new and more recent timestamp which can be 2 years after I made
them.
Your help is very much appreciated!
I do my 10,000 photos in gobs of folders by the YYYY-MM-DD format.
2007 10 01 - Kids Birthday
2007 12 25 - Xmas
2008 01 01 - New Years
2008 05 04 - Another item.
Its the only way I can get them to work right. I've been trying for 4 years. I'm open to ideas, but this works.
.
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